Donna Martin's 5-Day Intensive Psoma Yoga™ Therapy offers an innovative approach towards the integration of mind, body, and spirit through embodied practices and somatic mindfulness. This is the first time Donna brings Psoma Yoga Therapy™ intensive training to Asia.

Each day is carefully designed to provide participants with experiential introductions and practical tools to cultivate self-awareness, healing, and wholeness.

Psoma Yoga Therapy™ offers an integration of several modalities - especially Hakomi and Yoga. Soma comes from the Greek for body. Ps (psyche) comes from the Greek for mind/spirit. So “Psoma” yoga is Donna's way of naming this integrated body/mind/spirit approach.

There are three main applications of Psoma yoga:

• as a personal practice for self-awareness and stress management;
• as a way of offering a group an embodied learning experience;
• as a way to work with someone else to support their healing journey.

Donna Martin, the founder of Psoma Yoga Therapy™ will introduce Psoma Yoga Therapy™ as a method to assist your understanding in somatic mindfulness, body movement and embodied healing. Donna will also share some core concepts and practices of Psoma Yoga Therapy™ for practical application in your practice or teaching.

Course Key Content

Day 1
Participants will embark on an experiential introduction to "psoma" and the principles of mind/body/spirit unity. You will explore healing as wholeness happening and delve into the power of consciousness. Through embodied practices, such as yoga-based mindfulness, you will learn to cultivate presence for self and others while becoming aware of habitual patterns and exploring new possibilities.

Day 2
The focus shifts to the Hakomi method of self-study using embodied mindfulness. Participants will learn about "loving presence" towards oneself and others and how to adopt an experimental attitude to uncover habitual mind/body experiences.

Day 3
An experiential introduction to Psoma Yoga as a form of therapy. You will learn how to assist each other in discovering old patterns and embracing new possibilities. The session will also explore the relationship between somatic practices, psychological structures, and core beliefs, with Donna's demonstrations of Psoma Yoga Therapy™.

Day 4
Participants will be invited to engage in healing as a journey of unfolding wholeness. They will learn skillful ways to support each other, with further discussion, and demonstrations of Psoma Yoga Therapy™.

Day 5
Introduce the comprehensive review of the three phases of Psoma Yoga Therapy™: Presence, Play, and Possibility. Through experiential integration and completion exercises, participants will solidify their learning and leave equipped with practical tools for personal growth and healing.

Suitable for

Open for all levels of yoga practitioners, somatic partitioners and anyone who would like to integrate Hakomi method and Psoma Yoga Therapy™ to facilitate a more embodied healing experience in or support their own or another's transformation.

Daily Schedule

9:00 - 12:00 Morning session
12:00 -14:00 Lunch break
14:00 -17:00 Afternoon session

About Donna Martin and guest speakers

Donna Martin, from BC, Canada, has taught yoga and yoga therapy for more than 50 years and was a founding member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists. She has been an international Hakomi therapist and trainer for more than 30 years. Donna worked closely with Ron Kurtz (the creator of the Hakomi Method) for the last 20 years of his life until his death in 2011. She was named in his will as one of seven "legacy holders" of his work. She co-authored with Ron Kurtz the Practice of Loving Presence: a Mindful Guide to Open-Hearted Relating, which has been translated into French, Spanish, and Russian. Her book Embodied Mindfulness: the Hakomi Way, is available in English and Spanish.

Donna has led yoga retreats and Hakomi trainings throughout Canada and the United States, Hawaii, Mexico, Japan, The UK and Europe, Indonesia, Israel, Russia, and South America. Donna’s original mind body spirit approach to therapy called Psoma (and Psoma Yoga Therapy™) integrates the self-awareness practices of yoga and Hakomi as a way to support healing as remembering wholeness. Her book Psoma Yoga Therapy was published in 2022 and a new book, called Psoma: the Heart and Soul of Therapy will be published in 2024.

Psoma is founded on a deep trust in our natural intrinsic wholeness and the wisdom of the body. Using attention to embodied experience as a way of revealing old patterns and discovering new possibilities, healing unfolds spontaneously and naturally within the context of a collaborative and honouring therapeutic relationship. The following quote from David Crow’s In Search of the Medicine Buddha, describes the spirit of the Psoma approach:

Wisdom without words,
born of inner silence,
carried within the heart,
dispensed with loving kindness:
this is true medicine.

2024 Nov 2nd - Nov 6th Donna Martin

Embodied Healing: Psoma Yoga Therapy™ Intensive Training

5-Day Immersion

Identity	Early Bird Price Register till Sep. 11th	Pre-training Price Register till ~Oct. 2nd	Regular Price
SPACE members/ SPACE WS and TT Graduates / Hakomi attendants*	NT$ 24,380	NT$ 25,300	NT$ 28,500
Non-SPACE members	NT$ 25,800	NT$ 27,000

Nov 2nd - Nov 3rd 2-day package

Identity	Early Bird Price Register till Sep. 11th	Pre-training Price Register till ~Oct. 2nd	Regular Price
SPACE members/ SPACE WS and TT Graduates / Hakomi attendants* / Online attendants	NT$ 10,080	NT$ 10,500	NT$ 11,800
Non-SPACE members	NT$ 10,680	NT$ 11,200

• Hakomi attendants referred to students who attended Hakomi Education Network (Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan)

Notes :

• Event Location: SPACE YOGA An-Ho studio
• Minimum number of registrations to hold the course: 25 students.
• Depending on the teacher’s discretion, students may sound record, take video or photos (no flash) for personal use as long as it is not distracting, but please do not post videos on public platforms (such as Facebook, YouTube, etc).
• The organizer reserves the right to modify the method, content and precautions of this event, and has the right to decide to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend this event, and retain the right of final interpretation.
• SPACE YOGA will video record and photograph the training for our records and promotion purposes.